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papager, more frequently called a poppy fungus, is an average widespread generalized fungus, it is one of the few edible fungi on dumuno, it is commonly farmed by the dumunoan humans due too it being nutrient rich and flavourful, though the flavour isnt a widespread love and it isnt uncommon for people to dislike poppy fungi, they can be cooked in many ways most of the time to add flavour too dishes but some people eat them raw as a snack, they are very effective at decaying things and spreading around fields to consume more dead things, they produce around 5.4 billion spores a day which helps them dominate the steppes of dumuno, though resembling the colour of earth poppies they gain their common name from the popping sounds they make when they are fried, this is due to their anatomy, filling their cap with large air pockets to fill with spores while expelling spores at the same time, when they are fried this pocket builds up and makes a popping sound, they usually grow to the height of 6 inches, if you have any questions regarding this terrestrial fungi please dont be afraid to ask

mardix, more commonly called a sea fungus, is a poisonous marine fungi, they are poisonous not due to any biological toxins, but due their intense saline content being too high for even the most salt adapted animals, causing at the least, extreme pain and discomfort and vomiting, and at the most, death, a painful one, they have gills growing from their sides, they usually have one but as they get older and their "roots" are growing farther from the exposed body they will start growing more, though this rule isnt always solid, like some of the time they will grow a second one when theyve just barely extended their "roots", though usually the third fourth fifth and sixth gill structures when they grow their "roots" farther, they can be eaten by only one animal, a swimming hawk, when they are desperate enough for food they will swim down to the bottom of the ocean in search of food, if you have any questions about this animal please dont be afraid to ask

operimus, frequently called a capped gill, are terrestrial fungi, they are the only terrestrial fungi to retail a gill structure, though shockingly it seems to be incapable of absorbing hydrospheric oxygen instead absorbing atmospheric oxygen, they are found commonly inside the temperate forests of dumuno, they grow their gill structure first then while growing their cap they will continue growing their gill and this results in strange support structures at the bottom which are unique for each fungi, if you have any questions regarding this fungus dont be afraid to ask, im more than happy to answer it

moriatili, commonly called a duo head, are semiaquatic fungi, theyve evolved two heads, one pointing towards the land and one pointing towards the water, they both are constantly expelling spores, reproducing asexually with themselves but also sexually with other nearby duo heads, its fairly common for duo heads to line the edges of lakes and other bodies of fresh water during winter, this is due too the amount of things that will die during said winter providing more than enough food to them, they also have been used as a way too tell whether or not an invisible mimic has hunted near an area recently, they thrive every time an invisible mimic fleet finishes hunting in a lake due to their venom causing most of the animals nearby death, they dont eat them all leaving more than enough food for the moriatili, they arent exactly toxic but most living things on dumuno are fatally allergic to eating them which causes the being which eats them to die almost on the spot, which does help the duo heads too grow even more since they will have lined their spores across the organism in their last moments which will mix with each other and grow even more to infest the corpse, they can only really be eaten without any negative repercussions to the organism by intosca, which usually arent allergic too the fungi and will eat it along with whatever corpse they find it growing on, if you have any questions regarding this fungus please dont be afraid to ask

arbinam, more commonly called a tree spore, are terrestrial fungi, they are one of the few kinds of dumunoan fungi to take nutrients from a living thing instead of a dead one, it isnt uncommon to find them littered across trees while wandering through dumunoan forests, they unintentionally use pseudo pollination attempts by constantly spraying their spores they land on birds and such which will fall off after interacting with another spore and usually onto a tree, this results in them spreading even farther, if you have any questions regarding this fungus please dont be afraid to ask

saxsus, commonly called a rock stem, are mountainbound fungi, theyve evolved to be stiff like a rock which stops them from getting crushed and stops them from getting eaten, though the animals which eat them are evolving to notice the differences, leading to an evolutionary arms race leading too the rock stems evolving to look more like a rock, they were farmed by early dumunoan humans as a form of salt before they discovered how to get granulated salt, they did this by adding a few shavings onto them, if you have any questions regarding this organism please dont be afraid to ask

infennus, more commonly known as a cold stump, are marine widespread fungi, these mushroom like fungi use their gill surface to launch their spores, though their spores arent the only way they can reproduce unlike most fungi, they usually have two but similar to the case of this example image, if their gill surface is damaged to the point of actively harming the fungi they will cut it off and reveal something dumunoan humans call evzos blood, its a viscous nutrient rich liquid which the infennus use as a pseduoblood, they develop a thin layer of cuticle above it as fast as they can due to the chemical reaction it causes with the salt water, this chemical reaction with evzos blood and salt water causes the dislodged gill surface to be launched very far from the parent infennus and then when its "access" evzos blood is used up they will slowly land onto the dumunoan seafloor or the corpse of a dumunoan creature and slowly develop until they grow a stem, a cap, and a new second gill, you can usually tell the difference between a spore produced cold stump and a gill produced cold stump by the size of a gill compared to the rest of the fungi, though rare, on occasion two gill surfaces will collide and will grow wrapping around each other, formerly thought to be a different kind of mushroom this was called a twin wart, this is now the name of this phenomena and it has been discovered they dig their "roots" into each other not in a competitive way to drain each other of nutrients until one thrives, but to exchange nutrients and such, these twin warts usually only have one gill per fungus and two caps, it isnt uncommon for twin warts to reproduce with each other extremely commonly, this has lead to people calling them "couple mushrooms", their pseudoblood is highly nutritious and is used as a sauce on meals on dumuno due to its high nutrients and distinct flavour, if you have any questions regarding this fungi please dont be afraid to ask im more than willing to answer

glomertus, more commonly called a lake spire, are large semiaquatic freshwater fungi which can grow up to 1 foot in stem height, with the cap matching semiequally, they were commonly thought to be the ancestor of round fungi but recent research has informed us that it is a close relative which has developed an amphibious nature and mildly different traits, such as their height which prevents them from growing far out of the water but also stops them from growing far into the water, it is unknown why they evolved this but recent palaeontological finds suggest it might be due to niche partitioning allowing for those more adapted to the semiaquatic lifestyle to survive and avoid being out competed by currently extinct fully aquatic and terrestrial fungi, their height has caused them to be quite the spectacle for people to see, the dumunaon humans living in the subarctic grow them almost like plants, since they can only reproduce under the right conditions and can decay almost everything they act like decorative compost bins, when youre done with food you can try to dig it into the dirt in their little enclosure which should have a small body of water, and a small body of land, both enough for them to thrive in, eventually youll have to expand them or let them die and decay and replace it after awhile, if you have any questions about this fungi please dont be afraid to ask

glacdex, more commonly called an ice carpet, are wide capped freshwater fungi, the purpose of this wide cap is to expel as many spores from the top of it unlike other fungi, they are called ice carpets due to them appearing like ice above the water and the carpet like feeling of the top of their caps, the biggest radius from the centre seen from a glacdex was 23 inches but its more common for them to be 11 or 13 inches in radius, they are very difficult to deal with and are considered pests by subarctic dumunoan farmers which farm the freshwater plants such as symmetrical branches or rooted branches, this is due to the large amount of space they take up and interference with the roots and such, glacdex are mildly parasitic, if they interact with the roots of a plant or the root like structures of other fungi they will try to absorb nutrients from them as much as they can, they reproduce very fast being able to reproduce with their own spores then have the ability to develop minor distinctions in genetics even distancing themselves from the parent fungi which allows them to spread far and wide even if only a single developing hyphae gets into a location it will quickly spiral into an infestation in weeks, which could take literal years to fix, if at all, since one or two unlocated hyphae and the entire infestation starts again, this has resulted in domestication of trunked hunters to be purely fungivorous and to thrive off of the hyphae and spores of the ice carpet, if you have any questions regarding this fungi please dont be afraid to ask

fictamen, more commonly called round grass, is a terrestrial subarctic fungi which has evolved to look indistinguishable from northern grass, this is so its main threat shadow geckos dont eat it since they show no interest in grass, these fungi are in a permanent arms race to develop better camouflage to the point that it is thought one day they will be indistinguishable for even dumunoan humans, these fungi are poisonous to many creatures including dumunoan humans but not to shadow geckos, they grow in steppes but also will grow in forests on occasion, they are thought to be descendants of lake spires but recent research has shown them as close cousins with a common terrestrial ancestor, they are still commonly eaten by the northern gramnivores causing them, due to their poison this kills the animal and start growing inside and on them, before dumunoans knew this they thought this was a common event called extinguishing where at random any beings soul could just extinguish regardless of their bodies health, it took them centuries to realize the correlation between an animal eating the round grass and then the event called extinguishing happening, this toxicity has caused them to be very common foods used for intentional poisonings since the colour and texture of fictamen shavings is similar to leaf spire shavings which are very common on cuisine, it has become custom for people at restaurants to provide proof that the food is being served with leaf spires and not round grass, if you have any questions regarding this fungus please dont be afraid to ask im more than willing to answer

remongia, more commonly called a lily branch, are tough marine symbiotic fungi, which grow out inside of sea plates, these mushrooms were thought to be strange branches of the sea plates, these fungi caps grow progressively wider and longer which leads to a giant halfdisc growing off of the sea plate, these fungi will provide their spores to the top of sea plates which poisons the animals which eat them and allow the lily branches to reproduce if there are other spores there, this has evolved an evolutionary arms race for different types of poison in the spores which the skim gulls and plate ray are evolving to adjust too eating them, lily branch "roots" suck a handful of the nutrients from the sea plates and on occasion if its winter or such and the sea plates arent providing enough nutrients for lily branches they will absorb all the nutrients they can and start eating away at it and growing more caps and expelling thousands of spores consistently until they die when the sea plate corpse is gone, this allows for them to survive subarctic winters, if you have any questions regarding this fungi please dont be afraid to ask

furlix, more commonly called a ghost fungus, are freshwater fungus which lives similarly to animals, this is due to them growing onto already living creatures and manipulating its muscles and brain to guide them towards other ghost fungi and exchange spores, though this process is a bit different than youd expect, due to ghost fungi thriving off of mobility they will keep the thousands of spores the other fungi provided within a small sac within their cap which they will release them alongside their own spores upon finding a suitable corpse, though if they are threatened they are capable of defending themselves by expelling their toxic spores all around the threat until it dies, since they can grow asexually if the spores arent relaxed by the specialized fluid in the sac they will start developing into ghost fungi, this allows for systemized colonies of ghost fungi controlling and eating away at large animals which, allows them to grow anywhere they wish, in some ecosystems they completely dominate the lake or river, but in others the animals are smarter and avoid the ghost fungi, though it would be beneficial for them to be more disguised to dominate the ecosystem, but they dont have much pressure to do as such since they thrive without dominating, they were commonly considered a bad omen in early dumunoan myth, due to their drive to find more fungi and corpses to reproduce which allows them to be manipulated by modern dumunoan humans and even other animals, with this manipulation they can be driven to find other things such as certain plants and animals and fungi and even certain minerals, if you have any questions regarding this fungi please dont be afraid to ask

sollus, otherwise called sun drops, are semiaquatic fungi, these large fungi emit heat off of their large surface area, this heat is never enough to boil or simmer the water around it, but enough to make it feel warm, they are commonly found inside the dens of natatomus, this is because they will grow on the uneaten corpses inside their dens, in dumunoan legends they are commonly thought to be gifts from koza, given form with the power of his sons, if you have any questions regarding this semiaquatic fungus please dont be afraid to ask im more than willing to answer

salgus, more commonly called vine fruit, these terrestrial fungi get their name from an old belief that they were fruits of tree vines, they are the sweetest fungi on dumuno due to the chemical structure of their spores being primarily filled with as much sugar as they can for their spores to develop into new fungi on other vines, this lead to them being believed to be fruit that look like fungi instead of just fungi, this myth still carries on into modern dumunoan discourse, though it is scientifically proven to be false, they grow their caps in a variety of different shades of purple, from a nice lavender to a deep palatinate, and any purples between, if you have any questions regarding these fungi please dont be afraid to ask i am more than willing to answer

tharuca, more commonly called poseidons goblet, is a primarily aquatic marine fungi, though its primarily aquatic it is still semi aquatic, its name in vivo is yuric ys, which translates to "yuris goblet" but as yuri is a deity of water it has been translated to english as poseidon instead, the inside of this fungi shoots out billions of spores from the top of its cap in all directions, this strategy is less effective during the low tide, but it is still effective for the majority of their lives nonetheless, if you have any questions regarding this fungi please dont be afraid of to ask

mortquam, more commonly called a feather wart, is a fully marine fungi, it uses the large protrusion off the top of their cap to oxygenate themselves, they produce the most spores out of any dumunoan fungi, producing trillions of spores per second, this means they need to consume as much nutrients as possible while theyre reproducing, which is why if you dig up the sand of the sea floor you can find large "roots" expanding on kilometres from the actual fungis base, you can even see small "fields" with the tips of these "roots" reaching the surface of the sand and eating the marine snow that builds up, if you have any questions regarding these fungi please dont be afraid to ask im more than willing to answer

cadacus, more commonly known as an hourglass fungus, is a semiaquatic marine fungi, they avoid competition with poseidons goblet by living closer to the shore, as in the middle of the intertidal zone, this allows them to not go extinct, their cap is evolved to shoot their spores out both upwards and downwards, depending on the sea level they will shoot spores out of the top or bottom layer of their cap, they cant produce spores from both however, it is commonly advised to keep your distance from cadaci due to the mild toxicity of their spores which if inhaled could lead too irritation and hospitalisation in extreme cases, if you have any questions regarding this semiaquatic fungi please dont be afraid to ask i am more than willing to answer

luntus, more commonly known as a moon jade, are smooth semiaquatic bioluminescent fungi, their cap is a smooth almost crystaline like material, this is due to their constant expelling of spores in small almost ridge like openings going up and down the fungis cap, their spores are bioluminescent and give the colourless translucent cap a cyan colour which glows in the night, in dumunoan mythology this is a gift from evzo, to use as light and a guide for the people of dumuno, theyre bioluminescent to ward off potential predators as a form of defensive mimicry to an extinct fungi which was very similar but actually toxic, the difference is moon jades are not toxic, if you have any questions regarding this fungi please dont be afraid to ask i am more than willing to answer

mycoxylic, more commonly called a cup wart, these sacrotrophs are far and widely distributed across the mountains they live on, they usually only make a cup on a corpse though they have made them in other places, just more rarely, they are shockingly efficient at decomposition, being able to turn a fresh corpse into a pile of bones in a few weeks, though they usually have help with microscopic organisms and parasitic ostoexoapo, and scavengers, though they also have to deal with being eaten themselves, like being burrowed into by small colonies of armed ants, being eaten by generalists and herbavores which have teeth adapted for mycolignum, spores tend to fertalize themselves and lay dormant under the ground until enough moss dies then they will spring to life and begin the decomposition process, they will last for as long as the cycle of the moss exist though they will usually only become reproductive if they find a corpse or a dead amphiamischos with their microscopic roots, they will then use the resources and energy the organism gives them to create a cup and release spores, if you have any questions whatsoever please dont be afraid to ask i am more than happy to answer

cyclosclero, more commonly called a spike wart, are small spike covered solumykitas, cyclosclero expel trillions of spores from every direction due to the spikes having small holes on their tips, they are commonly found in large groups, though it is still unknown whether this is due to multiple spike warts being near each other fills the surrounding area with new warts over time or if its due too the singular solumykitas producing multiple warts for its own reproduction, due to being made entirely of tough nutrient poor material they are one of the few things in the entire fresh water ecosystem of the mountains which doesnt get eaten, at least the wart, the small hyphae like structure named xylohyphe is very commonly eaten by the bottom feeding ichthyolania, the wart will decompose itself if it becomes too costly to keep producing spores compared to its nutrient output, usually only decomposing the stem, and then deconstruct the stability roots back into xylohyphe, leaving the wart drifting through the ammonia slowly decomposing and being eaten as it ferments and becomes weaker and contains more nutrients, if you have any questions regarding this organism please dont be afraid to ask i am more than happy to answer